Florida Judge to Give ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Suit Closer Look

Sometime, we’d imagine, being a trial-court judge gets a little tedious and tiresome. All those motions to exclude and dismiss; boxes of evidence and F.3ds; everyone kissing up to you all the time.

But at other times, the job can be a bit more, well, interesting.

Take, for instance, the evidence ordered up on Wednesday by Panama City, Fla., federal judge Richard Smoak. On Wednesday, Judge Smoak ordered “Girls Gone Wild” videos to be turned over to the court so he could make a final ruling in a lawsuit involving four girls who claimed they were were coerced into exposing themselves for GGW’s company, Mantra Films Inc. Mantra iis owned by Joe Francis (pictured), who’s no stranger to the court system. Click here for the story, from the Panama City News Herald; here for the rather humdrum order. (Hat tip: How Appealing.)